IDN Traffic

Today marks an important IDN Historic event as four countries pass the evaluation process of the IDN cctld Fast Track.
The first four countries/territories to have passed the evaluation process [ awaiting delegation ] are:
Saudi Arabia with primary string:
xn--mgberp4a5d4ar
السعودية
and variant strings:
xn--mgberp4a5d4a87g
السعودیة
xn--mgbqly7c0a67fbc
السعودیۃ
xn--mgbqly7cvafr
السعوديه
Egypt with string:
xn--wgbh1c
مصر
United Arab Emirates with string:
xn--mgbaam7a8h
امارات
and Russia with string:
xn--p1ai
рф
Our congratulations first to the first four [...]

Domain News, Egypt, fast track, ICANN, icctld, icctlds, IDN, IDN News, IDN tlds, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE

It was refreshing to see a nice list of IDNs on DNJournal’s reported domains sale list.
Not surprisingly, all of them were from Sedo’s idn .eu domain auction in December 2009 after it managed to snag a good portion of sought-after domains when the IDN dot eu landrush started on December 10th.
Here’s what made the list [...]

.EU, DNJ, domain sales, IDN, IDN .eu

The latest post on the official Google blog mentions infiltration attacks to their corporate infrastructure, mainly the accessing of Chinese Human Rights activists’ Gmail accounts by third parties. As a result, Google is planning to review their business operations in China.
First, I believe there’s much more to this than what they let appear on that [...]

Baidu, ccnic, China, Google